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...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
Balfour Years were: 1878, when he was in at the Treaty of Berlin with Bismarck and Disraeli, as secretary to his maternal uncle the Marquess of Salisbury (then British Foreign Secretary); 1887-91. Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1902-05, Prime Minister, falling when the Conservative-Unionist party split on free-trade v. tariff; 1905-11, Leader of the Conservative Opposition; 1915-16, First Lord of the Admiralty during the Battle of Jutland, after which his cold, minute announcement of British casualties in ships and men almost gave the public an impression of German victory, created a scandal; 1916-19, Foreign...
...Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Mrs. James Watson Webb) appointed and appointed until the H. O. Havemeyer Collection was bloated to 1.907 specific objects. More modest than other museum donors, Mrs. Havemeyer specified that her collection was not to be kept separate and sacrosanct but was to be split up and subdivided, after the original exhibition, among the proper museum departments...
...Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest of milk-white crickets, curiously not blind from living in the dark...
Schizoid types: physically pale, sharp-featured; mentally censorious, nonsocial, preferring routine habits, tending to have their personalities split (schizophrenia); especially apt to be tubercular...